"Three-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito invites you to the horrific Tomb Town and beyond. Countless tombstones stand in rows throughout a small community, forming a bizarre tableau. What fate awaits a brother and sister after a traffic accident in this town of the dead? In another tale, a girl falls silent, her tongue transformed into a slug. Can a friend save her? Then, when a young man moves to a new town, he finds the house next door has only...

This title describes why ancient Egyptians highly valued their tombs and details the different types over time. Clear text and vibrant photos grab and hold readers' interest, and QR Codes in each chapter link to book-specific videos, activities, and more. Features include a table of contents, fun facts, Making Connections questions, a glossary, an infographic, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. DiscoverRoo...

"Egypt boasts some of the most spectacular ancient ruins in the world, scattered across the entire country. Over the past two centuries, archaeologists have unearthed the burials of some of Egypt's celebrated pharaohs, from the chambers deep within the famed pyramids at Giza to the tombs hidden away in the rocky hills of the Valley of the Kings. And yet, many of the most intriguing and notorious individuals remain unaccounted for. Where are Alexander...

"Marcelo Tetteh, a twenty-seven-year-old LGBTQ activist, is butchered to death one night after being lured on Grindr to a deserted building site. With high instances of homophobia in Ghana, Marcelo's wealthy father doesn't trust the Ghana Police Service to find the killer, so he goes to the Sowah Private Investigators Agency for help, partly because he still feels guilty for disowning his son when he came out. Emma is assigned the case, but quickly...

An angry terror lurks at the bottom of a dark pit...

Jay and Lila Cooper are back for another adventure, this time in search of a young treasure-seeker whose ambitions drove him to the bottom of a pit, never to return. In their struggle to understand what happened to him, the Coopers learn of a greedy, man-eating creature known as Ha-Raphah, who terrorizes locals into worshiping him. Although they are certain he is extremely dangerous,

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What happens when flames from the past come to the present? Stacy, a prestigious novel writer, never imagined how her life would tumble after starting the investigations to start her new novel. Álos, the coroner, thinks there are no such things as casualties, and even less when several families lose their lives under the flames' passing. Accompanied by one of the most prestigious coroners from the Big Apple, and a detective who came from the capital,...

The fourth instalment in Syd Moore's spooktacular witch detective series. Halloween in Essex and the Mystery and Suspense creative writing course at old Ratchette Hall is off to a satisfyingly creepy start. But things take a turn for the worse when the course administrator is discovered dead, clutching a marble finger to his chest. For why would anyone, undead or alive, want to kill mild-mannered Graham? Luckily Rosie Strange and Sam Stone are on...

The terror of the London Tombs scare attraction turns real when a restless spirit rises and hunts down the attendees during a special press event.

Millie Lucas and her handsome dragon protector Benjamin Castle are about to find themselves in a very sandy situation. Their jaunt to the seaside port of Pernix is interrupted by the arrival of a stranger interested in their magic. Before they know it, they're whisked off to the island nation of Kalea where it's revealed that the king himself demands they give over a part of their spell-casting abilities for the sake of his kingdom. Their unique system...

Winner 2021 Reader's Favorite Silver Award for Children's Audiobooks Hunted, stranded, shipwrecked, sold, and betrayed...all to find an old book and realize who you really are. After discovering a mysterious stone pillar, Isaac, Zac, and Breezy find themselves fighting for their lives in a strange and perilous world, unaware of the disruption they bring. Hunted by the immortal Lord Sasson, the teens forsake all to pursue an ancient quest in hopes...